Science Lesson Two - Nature Labs

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Chapter Two

The Context of It All

Part One

CONTEXTUALIZING CONTEXT - Food chains and carrying capacity? Understand the context by watching the story below.

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Questions & Activities

Reflect on your lesson with short activities, or by exploring referenced articles, featured podcasts, term definitions, and more!

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Featured Hot Take

We all need a little context. How to get it? Pollsters help! And few are as informed as Shachi Kurl, the Executive Director of the Angus Reid Institute. She took time away from analyzing the news – and our opinions on the news – to join us in conversation.

We’re featuring this podcast across all five Nature Labs subjects. You might not like every course you take in school, but they are all related. By listening to this podcast, hopefully you’ll better understand why.

Nature Labs · Shachi Kurl

Reflection

What did you learn from Shachi's story?
Does polling inform better research? Does it help create more empathy for those we disagree with?
How valuable is it to have unbiased, impartial research to better understand public opinion, as scientists and as citizens?
Like science, do you believe polling to be unbiased, or can the questions that drive the research be loaded or leading, helping create answers that reinforce certain perspectives?
How do we create more movements that unify, rather than divide? Can science help?

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Part Two

THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES WILL HELP YOU BETTER UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPTS YOU NEED TO LEARN IN THIS CLASS. YOUR TEACHER WILL SELECT WHICH ACTIVITIES YOU NEED TO COMPLETE BELOW.